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Nitya Deepam

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12 మాసాలు

A masa is a lunar month, and there are twelve in a year — with a thirteenth inserted roughly every thirty-two and a half months to stop the calendar drifting away from the seasons.

Each is named for the nakshatra in which its full moon falls: Chaitra for Chitra, Vaishakha for Vishakha, Kartika for Krittika, and so on down the list. That is the naming rule rather than a coincidence, and it is why the month names and the nakshatra names run in the same order.

These pages are stated in the amanta reckoning, in which a month runs from the day after one new moon to the next. Purnimanta states cut the month at the full moon instead, which shifts the name of every waning fortnight by one — the single most common reason two panchangams appear to disagree.